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Word: puppeteer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing has been funnier than your oh-so-objective reporters writing of Meredith as though he were something other than a dangling black puppet on an awful thin string...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 12, 1962 | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...people to revolt in 1956, none was more famous than Novelist Tibor Dery. His Niki: The Story of a Dog, a powerful satire on Stalinism in Hungary, was published on the eve of the uprising and immediately became a bestseller. For his role in the revolution, the Janos Kadar puppet regime sentenced Dery to nine years in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Forget the Revolution? | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

...such galleries exist? Why don't they hold puppet shows instead...

Author: By Henry Schwarz, | Title: Gothic Man in an Atomic Age | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

...middle, President Jose Maria Guido, the ineffectual puppet installed after .Frondizi, pleaded for a truce. But the military rivals were beyond pacifying. As the shooting started, Guido, who at one point appeared to support the incumbent Democrats, now threw in his lot with the rebellious Legalists. It proved wise. After a series of sharp battles, the Democrats were driven from Buenos Aires. The victorious Legalists proclaimed themselves in charge and called for elections to return to constitutional rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: Changing of the Guard | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

...pejorative addition to the national vocabulary, "the organization man" is hardly more than a human ballbearing who aspires to become a big wheel. But as prop for U.S. fiction writers, he has become distressingly ubiquitous-mostly in the role of a puppet for potboilermakers, only rarely as the subtly realized, peculiarly American character he should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conformity's Crises | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

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